The Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities and DeHart’s Auke Bay Store have worked out a “compromise” that would see a roundabout put in without building a large retaining wall between the convenience store and the road, representatives from both said last week.

The owners of DeHart’s, along with some members of the Auke Bay community, had expressed concerns over previous plans for a roundabout at the intersection of Back Loop Road and Glacier Highway, near the University of Alaska Southeast campus.

The office of City Clerk Laurie Sica posted a sample ballot materially identical to those Juneau voters will see Oct. 2 on the City and Borough of Juneau’s website Thursday afternoon.

That sample ballot, which can be found on the “Elections Information” page, displays the names of five candidates for the Juneau School District Board of Education, two candidates for mayor, two candidates for Assembly District 1 and one candidate for Assembly District 2, along with write-in lines for each race, as well as two ballot propositions.

Hal Hart, the City and Borough of Juneau’s new Community Development Department director, arrived in Juneau Sunday night – and he’s been learning about his new home ever since.

At a reception for new CDD staff on the fourth floor of the Marine View Center Wednesday afternoon, Hart said he has been “learning the downtown (and) learning the community as much as I can” since starting work Monday.

After deciding June 27 to go out for a broader field of candidates, the City and Borough of Juneau Assembly filled an open seat on the board of directors for Juneau International Airport Wednesday evening by appointing former board member Joe Heueisen.

Heueisen, who served on the board from 1995 to 2007 and chaired it for part of his tenure, immediately begins a three-year term expiring June 30, 2015, as a result of the Assembly’s decision.

Wednesday evening’s Treadwell Ice Arena user group meeting at the Mendenhall Library hosted some lively disagreement, as participants presented opposing visions for where a second sheet of ice in Juneau should be placed.

The meeting was a follow-up to a July 18 session at which representatives from different user groups shared their wishlists for a new facility.

It appears Bartlett Regional Hospital will be getting its new chief financial officer some two weeks earlier than expected.

While the hospital announced Monday that it expected Ken Brough, who is currently the CFO of Star Valley Medical Center in Afton, Wyo., would start on or about Oct. 1, Brough said Wednesday that he has been working with Star Valley and now expects to start Sept. 17 instead.

When Christine Harff was announced as Bartlett Regional Hospital’s new chief executive officer earlier this summer, her background in nursing, multiple degrees and professional experience were among the qualities named by the hospital board’s president and others that distinguished her.

Harff doesn’t downplay those aspects. But when asked Monday what she hopes will define her at Bartlett, she went back a bit further in her life.

The executive committee of Bartlett Regional Hospital’s board of directors cleared staff to negotiate a contract with a firm to conduct a revenue cycle review, which the hospital’s interim chief financial officer said is intended to identify “gaps” in the process and provide suggestions on how to improve it.

Dennis Stillman, Bartlett’s interim CFO, described the revenue cycle at Bartlett as a process by which each patient is admitted, charged and billed, among other steps. That process, he said, is not a perfect one.

Bartlett Regional Hospital announced Monday that it is adding another key member to its management team, less than a week after its new chief executive officer took the reins.

Ken Brough has been selected as the hospital’s new chief financial officer, CEO Chris Harff announced.

“We feel Ken would be a really good fit. He has a lot of what I would call people skills, operational skills … a lot of technical skills,” said Harff Monday. “What really intrigued me about Ken is the people part.”

Two Parks and Recreation projects received the backing of City and Borough of Juneau Assembly standing committees Monday, getting unanimous approval for their requests to submit resolutions of support to the full Assembly.

The Public Works and Facilities Committee was receptive to the acting director of the Engineering Department’s request that the Assembly signal support for an application to the National Forest Service for a “technical assistance grant” that would benefit a proposed off-highway vehicle park near Bridget Cove.